I started taking piano lessons from a very gifted teacher...it was something I'd thought about doing for a long, long time and now I had plenty of time to learn. It was slow going at first, but after a couple of, relatively speaking, years I began to get the hang of it.
Claire started taking an online course on speaking French and she was fantastic at it after only a short time and truly loved just talking to me in French and even though I didn't have a clue what she was saying I loved just hearing her talk. After a while, I started picking up a few things and then I started taking a French class as well and it wasn't all that long until we were talking to each other in French... it was so amazing how well we worked together.
So, if this really was my time loop...the one I'd thought about and planned and laid out just how I wanted, then I did have a way out of it if I wanted to. I could shut it down and go back to a normal time flow and Claire and I did talk about that...did we want to be able to travel further away than one day's drive? We had taken to taking day trips sometimes...seeing more then just our little town.
Did we want to start a family? Have little babies around us to share in all this love and tenderness we have for each other? And we talked about it and neither one of us was in any hurry at all to decide so we just let it go and every once and awhile one of us would bring itup and we'd decide to let future Claire and future Doug decide and one day they did...but that's a different tale for a different time. Not for today...but we'll get there.
For right now we were extremely content with just having each other as much at we wanted and doing whatever we wanted. I learned guitar and Claire taught herself how to cook these amazing dishes and spoiled us with tastes and combinations like we'd never imagined before. We'd go to the library and read for hours and hours and really took the time to learn all that we could about anything that took our fancy...sometimes we'd get obsessed with finding that obscure reference in a book or movie we'd read or watched...like reading everything from a particle author, watching everything that an actor had done or reading all the fantasy books in order for1980...things like that. Any way that we wanted and for as long as we wanted and we really saw no reason to give all that up ...why get back into a regular flow of time when we could have this for...well...forever and ever... never worrying about getting sick, having cancer, a horrible car crash, another pandemic hitting the world or another assassination of a president... a huge natural disaster and earthquakes or tsunami or twister killing everyone intown...we didn't have to be concerned or care about any of that in the least.
We'd decided the day before that we'd go see some local caves the next day...so once we both were up and together and ready (we packed a cooler with a picnic for us) we headed out. It was only about an hour away, so really close. Claire had never been to see them, and it had been years since the last time I'd been... not even counting loop time in that figure...so we were both really looking forward to it.. initially I'd worried about straying to far from town and our usual routine, but after a few test runs I saw that we were safe to venture out and see close by attractions.
As we drove along we picked our favorite songs to listen to from Claire's playlist that she had set up on her phone...like so much with us I was still amazed at how much we had in common with our taste in music...of course we liked a lot of 80's tunes and tons from the 90's and up, so we had a lot to pick from and there was also classical as well... that now with my having mastered piano I appreciated even more.
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November Days
Science FictionIf you found yourself living in a time loop, would you try all that you could to escape? Or would you try and find love there?
